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From: carter@sloth.gatech.edu (Carter Bullard)
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Subject: Re: Patch 2.0 query
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Date: 17 Mar 89 17:14:02 GMT
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In article <15751@cup.portal.com> chari@cup.portal.com (Christopher Michael Whatley) writes:
>The problem with the configure patch has to do with gnu cpp (gpp?).
>Configure expects this:
>
>#define XYZ xyz
>#define ABC abc
>ABC.XYZ
>
>To come out as "abc.xyz" from cpp while gnu's cpp outputs "abc. xyz" (or
>"abc .xyz", I can't remeber. So, just alter configure to accept the above.
>Afterwords, patch should configure fine. If you get rn or anything else
>by him, you will have to do the same thing.
>
>Chris

in the Configure scripts that i have seen, if the cpp doesn't work, it
asks you for a command line that does.  here you can reply:
   cc -E -traditional
and it will work fine. 

carter

Carter Bullard
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